Chaperones are a must! Invite parents to enjoy the Arizona State Museum and help make your field trip experience successful. We require three chaperones or teachers for each class, or 1 adult per 8 children. Self-Guided visits are free for students and $5 per chaperone/teacher and must be pre-scheduled.

Arizona State Museum is among the beneficiaries of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, funds from which will be designated for much-needed environmental upgrades to the museum’s photographic collection.

The first anthropology museum in the Southwest, today, ASM, the Peabody Museum at Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum are the three premier university anthropology museums in America in terms of the scope, size, and importance of their collections.

The ASM Library is located in the historic reading room of the University of Arizona's former Main Library. The article that follows gives a description of the building a few years after construction was completed in 1925.